There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.